8. Georges Seurat – A Young Woman Powdering Herself. 1888-1890, 96 x 80 cm. The plump model is Madeline Knoblock, Seurat's mistress. Perhaps Seurat wanted to show us his lady friend in her habitual surroundings - corseted like a traveling player, dressed in organdy, with heavy bracelets and a pink hair-ribbon of the kind we see attached to the round mirror on that horrible little table. In 1889 Seurat moved in with Madeleine Knoblock, a young 20 year-old model, and they had a son in 1890. Seurat died suddenly in Paris from meningitis on March 29, 1891 at the age of 31.